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"I'm going to finish my damn story!": a support thread

CalBishForNow said:
I'm only a tiny bit worried about finishing Part 13 by the deadline I've set for myself. I'm more worried about doing that and also finishing the Valentine's Day story I'm thinking about doing after it. And if I manage both of those, I assume I'll have to worry about burning myself out again.
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Just hit Publish on Part 13 last night. 9800 words, including all the plot points I had in mind for it when I started and one eureka moment I had halfway through. This was two days past the deadline I had set for myself. (And then this morning, I edited it again to add HTML tags, because I'm insane.) On the one hand, that's arbitrary and dumb to worry about and I could blame the weather and other unpredictable disruptions to my routine; on the other hand, Part 12 ended on a cliffhanger, and I didn't want to leave people hanging too long.

With that, I'm unwatching this thread. Maybe not literally, I appreciate the support and should probably have been offering more of it and it's been funny seeing the memes, but I want to pace myself, on writing in general and on these stories I kinda sorta care about in particular. I want the next story to be both timely and good. Maybe even weighted towards the second thing, even though I was thinking about it as a Valentine's Day story for a little bit. That was never incredibly important to it. It if takes me long enough to get just right, maybe I'll replace the references to coats with references to sundresses and sandals and it'll be a Summer Loving story instead.
 
CalBishForNow said:
With that, I'm unwatching this thread. Maybe not literally, I appreciate the support and should probably have been offering more of it and it's been funny seeing the memes, but I want to pace myself, on writing in general and on these stories I kinda sorta care about in particular. I want the next story to be both timely and good. Maybe even weighted towards the second thing, even though I was thinking about it as a Valentine's Day story for a little bit. That was never incredibly important to it. It if takes me long enough to get just right, maybe I'll replace the references to coats with references to sundresses and sandals and it'll be a Summer Loving story instead.
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HyunnaPark said:
I wrapped up chapter 8. Chapter 9 is the outtro, so it's going to be short. I'm waiting until after lunch to finish it because I don't want to be crying at Chipotle.
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Try one of these restaurants instead: (BTW I'm in the midst of writing Goth IHOP.)
 

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I don't know. Maybe I should finish one of the stories I've worked on. You know what though? Cat videos are fun. So.....
 
My computer broke. The thing for the 750-word challenge was there, but I lost access to it. I do have it backed up.

Unfortunately, my Valentine's entry wasn't, and all I had was the first draft on my phone, which I'm now editing again FROM SCRATCH!

I don't know if I could make it. My phone is more distracting and it's really difficult to edit here... But my writing speed matched the same writing speed I have on the computer!
 
KittyOfSteele said:
My computer broke. The thing for the 750-word challenge was there, but I lost access to it. I do have it backed up.

Unfortunately, my Valentine's entry wasn't, and all I had was the first draft on my phone, which I'm now editing again FROM SCRATCH!

I don't know if I could make it. My phone is more distracting and it's really difficult to edit here... But my writing speed matched the same writing speed I have on the computer!
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That sucks. Hopefully it's in other ways easier the second time round.
 
All right, got 2300 words done today. Not nearly as much as I was hoping for, but we're in the café after I detonated a small-to-medium exposition bomb about the democratization of magic and people using demons for all sorts of tasks nowadays, the fear of demons replacing human jobs, etc. Definitely going to have to scale it back/move it in revision.

Probably about halfway finished, so looking at a final word count of ~15k. Which is definitely more than I thought it would be going in. Story of my life.

I'm very much enjoying powerful foxxubus forcing this guy to treat her like a stereotypical girly girlfriend, but also pretending to be his thrall (so as not to drawer suspicion that she's an un-bound demon) while occasionally roasting him.
“Master couldn’t find a date, so I’m it!” Vulpi chirped.

The man rolled his eyes. “Gods, man, get a life.”

“He doesn’t need a life, he has me!”
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Tomorrow, I'm really hoping to have a good burst, since I'd like to get this in before the Valentine's Day deadline closes on the 6th. Shooting for 5k, primarily because I suspect this thing will end up near 20k, despite my assertion ten seconds ago :rolleyes:
 
HyunnaPark said:
Just re-read my draft and am still crying but for a very different reason :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: . I don't suppose there's a "let's get motivated for a round of revision" thread.
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Revision is the reward for writing! It's where everything comes together and you get to focus on the language, the imagery, the foreshadowing. It's the best thing about being a writer.
 
anthrodisiac said:
Probably about halfway finished, so looking at a final word count of ~15k. Which is definitely more than I thought it would be going in. Story of my life.
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anthrodisiac said:
Tomorrow, I'm really hoping to have a good burst, since I'd like to get this in before the Valentine's Day deadline closes on the 6th. Shooting for 5k, primarily because I suspect this thing will end up near 20k, despite my assertion ten seconds ago :rolleyes:
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HyunnaPark said:
I took a long look at this one and it needs a rewrite, not a revision, but for all the right reasons. I was writing a ghost story with a light romance on the side, but pivoted hard into the romance at the end (because it was honestly the better story and I felt that as I was drafting). But now I have 9 chapters of ghost story when what I want is 9 chapters of romance with a ghost story that complicates & catalyzes the relationship.
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That sounds extremely interesting. Good luck on your rewrite! I've had a bug in my head for a while wanting to write a ghost story but haven't come up with an idea I like, here's hoping the rewrite goes well.
 
HyunnaPark said:
I took a long look at this one and it needs a rewrite, not a revision, but for all the right reasons. I was writing a ghost story with a light romance on the side, but pivoted hard into the romance at the end (because it was honestly the better story and I felt that as I was drafting). But now I have 9 chapters of ghost story when what I want is 9 chapters of romance with a ghost story that complicates & catalyzes the relationship.
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Soixenta said:
I have been unable to write the final chapter of my story "Mage & Moonshadow". It began quite easily, but after two and a half thousand words it stalled. I was unable to move the story forward towards the right climax. And then life and work came along, and now I have not written anything for nearly a month.

But next week I intend to start writing again. I will join this thread then for encouragement!
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It has taken somewhat longer than I intended, but last night I got back to my story. I wrote 800 words, and I have already added another 200 today. I know how the story is going to progress too, which was a large part of the problem.
 
Soixenta said:
It has taken somewhat longer than I intended, but last night I got back to my story. I wrote 800 words, and I have already added another 200 today. I know how the story is going to progress too, which was a large part of the problem.
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Soixenta said:
It has taken somewhat longer than I intended, but last night I got back to my story. I wrote 800 words, and I have already added another 200 today. I know how the story is going to progress too, which was a large part of the problem.
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I have managed 1300 words today. A sex scene has just started, and I do not think I can do it justice properly just now. Perhaps I ought to skip it and move on to the climactic scene of the series.
 
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